Brian Phillip Welch (born June 19, 1970), better known as Head, is an American musician best known as the former lead guitarist/co-founder of the multiplatinum Nu Metal band Korn, whose trademark style was sporting a constellation of rubber-banded braids in his hair. Along with fellow Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer, Welch helped patent Korn's distinctive sound, a mix of sirenlike shards of dissonant guitar that mimicked a turntablist's various effects and rumbling down-tuned riffing that defined the s...